The “one thing” that former president Donald Trump needs to win the 2024 election is his former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, according to the hosts of Fox & Friends.
The former South Carolina governor ran against Trump in the Republican primary arguing that it was time for fresh leadership in the party, but has since endorsed him and spoke in support of him at the Republican National Convention.
On Monday morning, Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade noted the importance of winning over the voters who backed Haley in the primary, so that they don’t instead throw their support behind Vice President Kamala Harris.
“One thing that the president, the former president needs, and I think it’s Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley supporters,” the host said.
“And they’ve been having trouble lining up schedules or whatever the teams are doing,” he added.
Kilmeade noted that “if you read The Wall Street Journal, which, I’m sure it’s going to be cycled around, you’ll understand that she’s unequivocally for Trump.”
Haley wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal on Sunday saying that while Trump “isn’t perfect” he’s “the better choice.”
“I don’t agree with Mr Trump 100 percent of the time. But I do agree with him most of the time, and I disagree with Ms Harris nearly all the time. That makes this an easy call,” she wrote.
Kilmeade’s Fox & Friends co-hosts also agreed it might be beneficial to enlist Haley’s help.
“It can’t hurt to have her on the stage,” host Ainsley Earhardt said.
“Absolutely not. And we told you this last week. She told the Trump people, ‘I’m on standby,’” Steve Doocy added.
Kilmeade has argued previously that Trump should ask Haley to campaign for him.
Trump appeared on the show on October 18, when he was asked if he would ask Haley to join him on the trail.
“I’ll do what I have to do,” he said. “Nikki Haley and I fought, and I beat her by 50, 60, 90 points. I beat her in her own state by numbers that nobody’s ever been beaten by. I beat Nikki badly.”
But Haley told Fox News last week that she hadn’t been asked to campaign for Trump.
“Last time I talked to him was back in June,” she told host Bret Baier.
“They’re very aware that we’re on standby,” she added. “They know that we would be there to help. I’ve helped with some fundraising letters and text messages and those types of things, so we’ve done that. But look, we are on the same team. It is their campaign’s decision on what he needs in these last final days. It does not bother me at all.”
